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links for 2008-07-08

• Metaweb’s Freebase Now 60% Larger Than English Wikipedia - ReadWriteWeb
  The semantically enriched common database Freebase announced today that it will soon reach the milestone of 4 million topics added to its collection. That’s 60% more than English Wikipedia’s 2,445,041 articles and almost half the size of Wikipedia’s full
  (tags: web2.0 wikipedia semantic_web)
• Rareshare: Social Network for Those With Rare Medical Disorders - ReadWriteWeb
  The idea behind the site is to bring together people with rare disorders, who often don’t have much of a support network within their local community….
  (tags: collaboration community web2.0 social_networking academic)
• Experience Versus Information - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog
  In the modern age, do we primarily treat information as a substitute for experience? Good discussion in the comments.
  (tags: experience information culture economics history)
• Linden Labs and IBM Break the Metaverse Barrier, Teleport Across Virtual Worlds - ReadWriteWeb
  …announced last night that they have achieved the first recorded teleport of their avatars from one virtual world into another…
  (tags: virtual_worlds secondlife)

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